Comment on “Understanding the Permafrost–Hydrate System and Associated Methane Releases in the East Siberian Arctic Shelf”

• Published in: Geosciences
• Main Authors: Brett F. Thornton, Marc C. Geibel, Patrick M. Crill, Christoph Humborg, Carl-Magnus Mörth
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Subjects: methane; East Siberian Arctic Shelf; laptev sea; East Siberian Sea; methane hydrates; Arctic; Laptev Sea; laptev; permafrost
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences9090384

The recent paper in Geosciences, “Understanding the Permafrost–Hydrate System and Associated Methane Releases in the East Siberian Arctic Shelf” by Shakhova, Semiletov, and Chuvilin, (henceforth “S2019”), contains a number of false statements about our 2016 paper, “Methane fluxes from the sea to the...